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some of which are executed with taste and skill. The hair is parted in front, or cut so as to 
fall loosely upon the neck. Moustaches are usually worn by the men. The women are neater 
and better looking than the Choctaws. 
Plate 15 is a portrait of Black Beaver, the chief of a band of Delawares living between the 
Shawnees and Kichais. Black Beaver is an invalid, and hardly a fair type of his people. 
They are much like the Shawnees, although the latter are better looking. In both bands there 
are many who wear a moustache. The accompanying figure, represented in plate 16, is a fac- 
simile of an image tattooed upon Black Beaver'sarm. Whether it was merely a fanciful device 
of the artist, or some sacred emblem of Indian superstition, could not be learned. 
Plate 17 represents two savages of the Huéco tribe whom we met upon the prairie south of the 
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Hueco Indians. 
Canadian. They have high cheek-bones, and a wild look, (which the artist has failed to rep- 
resent,) totally different from the quiet features of those representing the preceding tribes. Their 
loose hair is uncropped. Feathers, tied to a lock at the crown of the head, float with the breeze. 
